Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This letter argues that the practice of conditioning on all observed covariates, recently advocated by several analysts, should be treated with great caution. Graphical methods explain why, and provide the scientific basis for principled selection of covariates.
Author: Judea Pearl
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Office of Naval Research
OpenAlex ID: W2767283401